How wonderful to see the BBC General Election site from 2010. Me and one other guy built the whole output because the World Cup was on and all the main staff w

How wonderful to see the BBC General Election site from 2010. Me and one other guy built the whole output because the World Cup was on and all the main staff were working on that. The other engineer even had to make the results service work on Ceefax [1]! We had over a billion hits in 24 hours to the statically published JSON file that updated the results every 15 seconds and we could even control the client poll rate from that file just in case. Over a weekend we built the first version of the BBCs live page amongst other things. It was terrifying watching constituencies declare for the first time; about as close to a live performance of web development as you can get. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/ (slightly broken now...)